The Westcountry Angling Passport

The Angling Passport Scheme offers fishing for wild brown trout, sea trout, salmon, grayling and coarse fish in unrivalled surroundings. There are 38 beats available as Token Fisheries and also the extensive Dartmoor Fishery on the East and West Dart and tributaries. In addition, Westcountry Angling Passport tokens can be used at all of the South West Lakes Trust Fisheries and also on most of the other Passport Schemes around the UK.

Tokens are bought in books of 10 valued at £2.50 per token with Token Fishery beats ranging from 2 to 6 tokens per angler per day. The Dartmoor Fishery operates on a day, week or season ticket basis starting at £10 for a day’s brown-trouting; tokens can be used as payment or part payment to purchase Dartmoor tickets.

As in previous years, tokens can be bought here on the website or through our token outlets. Dartmoor Fishery tickets are available through the network of Dartmoor outlets; please refer to the website for full details.

There are a few changes from last year; we no longer offer the facility to book beats online, and we are not producing a paper brochure – however all the beat information can be found on the passport website where it can be downloaded to your smartphone or printed out. The Westcountry Angling Passport offers a huge wide of opportunities to go fishing on a flexible basis at very reasonable prices that we really hope you enjoy. Please check out the website and let us know what you think and tight lines for 2015!

Visit some of the Westcountry's most spectacular fishing

All you need to do is browse through our fishing beats, decide which one you want to vist, buy some tokens and start packing your gear..!

iGhillie Video Fishing Guides

We have 10 short film clips that introduce you to a fishing beat or provide interesting information about fishing in the Westcountry.

The ghillie for each film will lead you through how best to approach the beat in question, the best techniques to use and the main areas to concentrate on.

The Tips and Tactics film is a compilation of information, both angling and environmental that fishermen may be interested in and the Fly Tying film aims at giving the beginner confidence to have a try at tying their own flies and provide tips to the more experienced fly tiers.

Lake Trout Fishing Season Off to a Flyer! The South West Lakes Trust Trout fishing season has got off to a terrific start with all the venues producing some fantastic opening weekend sport. Kennick near Exeter produced a rod average of 7.6 fish per person. The largest... read more

2015 – Start of a New Season Welcome – thank you for visiting our new site, we hope anglers old and new to the scheme will like the way it looks and works and will enjoy using the scheme in 2015. If you have fished on the Westcountry Angling Passport before you will... read more

A warm year with long periods of dry weather made fishing very tough at times. The general lack of migratory fish added to the difficulties for the salmon and sea trout anglers. However, like any year, there was some good angling had and, let’s face it, a day fishing... read more

About WRT

The Westcountry Rivers Trust is an environmental charity (Charity no. 1135007, Company no. 06545646) established in 1995 to secure the preservation, protection, development and improvement of the rivers, streams, watercourses and water impoundments in the Westcountry and to advance the education of the public in the management of water.